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It's a bit confusing having a profile button at the top of the page (which is used to set the sig) and a "My Account" link on the left menu bar (which contains an option for setting a sig, but it appears to do nothing).
Guess which one I've been fiddling with.
Anyway it seems to be working now, I should have looked in here weeks ago. But I thought I'd mention it in passing just in case it's the sort of feedback you're after (and to test that my sig's now working).

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Moultonboro, New Hampshire
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Moultonborough is a town in Carroll county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1763. Its parent county/ies is/are Strafford. For more information, contact the county at P.O. Box 15, Moultonborough 03254. On the attached map, Moultonborough is shown as 15 in Carroll.
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Hey Jon how come your car wasn't competing at that race? To far to go? Interesting the camaros didn't run bumpers, and most of the Mustangs didn't but the Cougars who were pretty dominant ran front and rear bumpers. Also it wouldn't have been easier for that Z/28 to swap out a gas tank than locate plastic balls to put in there? they would have had to pull the tank to get the plastic balls out anyways right?
Thanks for the compliments, guys.Close up of Horst Kwech in the Alfa GTA. He and John Pauly's Porsche had a hard fought duel for the win in the second half of the race.Photo by Jerry MeltonHorst Kwech's teammate Monty Winkler. This looks like it might be the car Kwech usually drives due to the kangaroo on the door.Photo by Jerry MeltonBob Johnson has the throttle buried on his Mustang as he blasts down the main straight.Photo by Jerry MeltonHere's Jim Kaufman behind the wheel of Milt Minter's Mustang after relieving him for heat exhaustion.Photo by Jerry MeltonDale Wood's Mustang did not make it to the finish.Photo by Jerry MeltonFred Baker has John Pauly's white Porsche breathing down his neck. Pauly would go on to win the U-2 class.Photo by Jerry MeltonFreddy Van Beuren's Mustang ran well. Finished 8th overall.Photo by Jerry MeltonTony Adamowicz finished 7th in U-2, 14th overall. The highest placing of the Ford Cortinas.Photo by Jerry MeltonCharlie Barnes was 8th in U-2, 16th overall.Photo by Jerry MeltonCraig Fisher's car did not finish the race but made it to lap 115 before the fuel system got clogged.Photo by Jerry MeltonHere's our race winner, Dan Gurney.Photo by Jerry MeltonAnother shot of Dan with the trophy.Photo by Jerry MeltonParnelli Jones, post race. Possibly signing an autograph.Photo by Jerry MeltonGurney and Jones finished 1-2 in a dominating performance that had been expected in the first two races but never materialized.Because of the grueling heat and the pressure from Parnelli, Gurney called this one of the most satisfying wins of his career.Photo by Jerry Melton


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ACTON - Nominating Mary Ruefle for the Robert Creeley Award, former winner Bruce Weigl praised his fellow poet for taking "us deeper and deeper into our imaginations where � everything makes a wonderful kind of sense.��
After rereading Ruefle�s work, Acton poet Bob Clawson observed, "She knocked me sideways, more than any poet has in a long time.��
If the poet�s job, as Marianne Moore once claimed, is to create "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,�� very different poets like Weigl and Clawson might agree Ruefle was the ideal choice for the 14th annual Robert Creeley Award, the area�s premier event of its kind for National Poetry Month.
She joins prior winners, including Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder and John Ashbery for the award named for the influential 20th century poet who grew up in West Acton.
One of the Foundation�s founders who serves on the seven-member committee � including three prior winners �that selected Ruefle, Clawson said she infuses her poems with "brilliant metaphors that take you on trips through time.��
"I think Mary�s poetry is daring and lucid because her metaphor structure is daring,�� he said. "You can feel Mary�s character and personality in her poems. She�s exciting. She writes personally without seeming whiny or confessional.��
Ruefle will read her poetry Wednesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at R.J. Grey Junior High School at 16 Charter Road, Acton.
Talin Tahajian, a senior at Belmont High School, will open the evening by reading her own work. For the second consecutive year, she won the Helen Creeley Student Poetry Prize, named for Creeley�s sister, also an accomplished poet. She was selected from among 44 entrants from 23 high schools based on written submissions and two auditions.
Just turned 18, Tahajian has been writing poems since the age of 10 but "became serious about poetry last spring�� and currently edits The Adroit Journal, a print and on-line publication that seeks "to showcase what its student-age editors see as the future of poetry, prose, and art.��
After meeting Nye last year and hearing her read, she realized, "The smaller things in life can be more meaningful and might blossom into something larger.��
Tahajian, who will study literature at Cambridge University in England this fall, described her own poetic style as "image heavy with a looser sense of narrative.��
She said she�s drawn to poetry "because it can express things in ways that prose can�t.��
"Sometimes I get a feeling it�s so beautiful. I want to have a part in sharing that feeling I get reading incredible people,�� she said.
A National Honor Society student who also enjoys modern dance and ballet, Tahajian described Ruefle as "an inspiration.��
A graduate of Bennington College in 1974, Ruefle lives in Bennington, Vt., and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published 11 collections of poetry and has been widely published in magazines and journals including American Poetry Review, Harper's Magazine and Kenyon Review and in several anthologies.
One of the Foundation�s founders, Maria Anthony opened her classroom at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School to Creeley when he won the first namesake award in 2001. She said the Foundation honors poets, like Ruefle, "at the top of their craft.��
"I think Mary is thought provoking and witty with a subtle sense of humor,�� she said.
Since the award winner reads to a school assembly and attends a luncheon with student poets, she said the Foundation looks for poets who�ll not just appeal to students but "will teach them something about the craft of poetry.��
Recalling last year Nye read to about 600 students, Anthony said, "I think they left with a new and wider understanding of poetry and the world.��
The first winner of the Helen Creeley Student Poetry Prize in 2008, Michael Bottari said the experience, which included meeting Ashbery, "definitely helped make me more interested in writing and poetry.��
After earning a journalism degree at Indiana University, he served in AmeriCorps and now, 23, works at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, based at WGBH and Boston University.
Growing up at a time digital culture has encroached on most aspects his generation�s life, he said, "People can get warped by technology.��
"I�m no big fan of digital language. It�s so fast paced. It�s important to keep poetic language alive,�� said Bottari. "Poetry takes a long time to write and find new ways to put the right words together.��
Vermont woman winner of Robert Creeley award
ACTON - Nominating Mary Ruefle for the Robert Creeley Award, former winner Bruce Weigl praised his fellow poet for taking "us deeper and deeper into our imaginations where � everything makes a wonderful kind of sense.��


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I've followed Brinja's blog and home for a few weeks now and just found it on Skona Hem.
Isn't the giant map perfect? Oh and the green chairs. The mix of vintage and Ikea is
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A professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management has coined a new term that I believe will soon be on the lips of employees in every workplace in America.
The term is "enclothed cognition," and it suggests that what you wear can influence your behavior, putting a new spin on the concept of dressing for success.
Adam Galinsky, a professor of ethics and decision in management, studied a group of people wearing lab coats. In a pre-test, the subjects said they associated a lab coat with attentiveness and carefulness, attributes that a doctor or scientist would have. Lo and behold, testing found that those who wore the lab coats showed an increased attention span.
Another group wore a similar coat but were told it was a painter's robe. That group showed no increase in attention span. (I'd apologize to painters, but they probably got distracted several sentences ago.)
In his study, Galinsky asks: "Does wearing the robe of a priest or judge make people more ethical? Does putting on an expensive suit make people feel more powerful? Does putting on the uniform of a firefighter or police officer make people act more courageously?"
Let's assume the answer is "yes." And that's how I'll explain it to human resources when I start showing up to work dressed as a wizard: "It enhances my ability to cast levitation spells on my supervisors!"
Of course photos of me dressed as a wizard would likely wind up on the Internet. And then I'd have "a Google problem."
Which leads me to the point of this column. A reader recently emailed because the results are less than flattering when she Googles her name. There are two people of the same name who come up high in the results, one a potty-mouthed blogger and the other a person who has been accused of wrongdoing in a field of work similar to the reader's.
"What to do?" she wrote.
While facing a rather unfortunate set of circumstances, this person is by no means alone in having Google anxiety. It's very likely that anyone seeking employment will wind up getting her or his name run through the Google machine, regardless of the legality of such random searches. And it's just as likely that a boss or co-worker could do a quick scan of your Internet profile and uncover something incriminating.
We all have two sides — one human, one virtual – both of which can get us in trouble.
Dan Bauer is managing director and founder of The MBA Exchange, an admissions and career consulting company that provides, among other things, "social media audits." He said about one-fourth of his company's clients wind up having something on the Internet that raises a red flag.
"And those are people who didn't point that out to us before they started," Bauer said. "They weren't even aware a problem existed."
He said cases in which a person shares a name with someone who has been up to no good are less common but do occur: "We've found some that share the same name as a convicted murderer and others with other legal entanglements. It does happen, and you never know when some case in a distant state that you've never read about might start impacting you."
To directly answer the reader's question, I think it's unlikely any reputable company would bonk a qualified candidate over suspect Internet content without being certain that the subject of the content is, in fact, the candidate. And if you're concerned about that happening, bring it up in an interview and say, "Hey, just in case you Google me, I wanted to give you a heads up ..."
More broadly, there are a number of ways to remedy online problems and prevent future issues.
Bauer's first suggestion is to set up a Google alert for your name (just type "Google alert" into Google to find out how to do this). You'll get an email any time your name comes up online — this allows you to stay on top of anything being said or written about you, or anyone with your name.
The next step is to make a habit of using a middle initial or a location in your online profiles — those details differentiate you from others with the same name. To provide further evidence of your identity, Bauer said it's good to have a photo on your social media profiles, preferably something professional and not that one of you hiking the ganja fields of Jamaica.
If you've written anything inflammatory or posted dodgy photos on your sites, scrub those clean. That doesn't mean it's gone for good, as someone else might have shared it, but it's an important step.
And if you've got negative information on somebody else's website?
"If you have an idea of who posted it, you'd want to encourage them to drop it," Bauer said. "If it's a site that has some past comments that would probably not look good and you can't get them off, putting positive comments on that site would at least push the negative comments down."
Be thorough. Bauer noted that even music playlists can have off-putting titles.
Lindy Kyzer, a social media expert and an editor at ClearanceJobs.com, a site for people with federal security clearance, said that while it's wise to monitor and manage your Internet profile, she thinks it's easy to get "overly paranoid."
"I wouldn't lose sleep or think you're going to lose a job because of someone who shares your name or because of something minor you did in the past," she said. "You want to stay on top of it. But I'd much rather see a job seeker spending time actually improving their skills rather than improving their brand."
She noted the evolving crossover between work and personal time: "Employers did it first by starting to issue people BlackBerries. We've had work encroachment on our personal lives for a long time. And now we have our personal lives encroaching on our work lives through these different Internet sites. Everybody makes mistakes online. We kind of learn and evolve as we go."
And that's how I'll explain the pictures of me in my "sexy wizard" costume: "Oh, that? That was back in my enclothed cognition phase. Nothing to worry about. I was just trying to turn my manager into a newt."
TALK TO REX: Ask workplace questions — anonymously or by name — and share stories with Rex Huppke at firstname.lastname@example.com, like Rex on Facebook at facebook.com/rexworkshere and find more at chicagotribune.com/ijustworkhere.


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Use the right resources to specify LEDs
The Illuminating Engineering Society, through its publications, has helped engineers make informed decisions on which LED light sources they should specify.
An LED luminaire manufacturer had specifications for a roadway LED luminaire claiming a 100,000-h life, 90+ color rendering index (CRI), 100+ lumens/W, and great performance for the distribution of light. A city engineer stated these specifications in a public newspaper, announcing a decision to purchase these luminaires for new roadways. Did the engineer make an informed decision to specify this LED luminaire? Was there a way the engineer could have verified the specifications were legitimate?
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are transforming the lighting industry. LEDs are being installed where previous light sources such as halogen lamps, compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), linear fluorescent lamps, and high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps were the industry standards.
Engineers often compare specifications between manufacturers' products, and in many instances, the luminaires with the stated highest specifications end up in the engineer's lighting fixture schedule. How does an engineer know if a manufacturer's LED luminaire meets its specifications?
Supporting documentation
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) is a nonprofit society recognized as a reference on the science and application of lighting. The IES is a joint sponsor of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 and Standard 189. The society collaborates on many other lighting, energy, and related documents.
The IES has several documents on LED performance that help engineers separate fact from possible fiction. One document, LUMENS-79-08 Electrical and Photometric Measurements of Solid-State Lighting Products, is a guide that describes the procedures to be followed in measuring a complete LED luminaire's performance. This guide covers methods for testing measurements such as lumens, luminous efficacy (lumens/W), luminous intensity (candelas) in one or more directions, correlated color temperature, and CRI. The guide covers luminaires and does not cover LED chips, LED packages, and LED modules.
LUMENS-79-08 specifies the test conditions and parameters (e.g., ambient temperature) for measuring an LED-based product's lighting data. The guide also mandates a test report be generated for each LED product with pertinent data such as the name of the testing agency, the date of the test, and the lighting performance data. A statement of uncertainties is required if applicable.
The efficacy of a light source is the lumens (amount of light generated) per Watt (amount of energy consumed). The efficacy of LEDs has increased over the past few years with efficacy ranges from 50 to 130 lumens/W. LEDs with cool white color temperatures generally have higher efficacies than warm white LEDs.
For comparison, a typical incandescent lamp's efficacy is 15 lumens/W, a CFL's efficacy is 60 lumens/W, the best linear fluorescent lamp's efficacy is 100 lumens/W, and a high-end metal halide lamp's is 100 lumens/W. (See the 2011 Dept. of Energy Solid-State Lighting Multi-Year Program Plan for more information.)
The efficacy of LED light sources has increased dramatically in a few short years. Expect 100+ lumens/W LEDs to be common in the near future. In the lab, manufacturers recently have produced LEDs that achieved more than 200 lumens/W.
LEDs can last a long time and, like all light sources, the light output of LEDs declines over time. Unlike other light sources, however, LEDs tend to continuously dim over time rather than burning out. Burning out of a light source is known as a catastrophic failure. LED light sources do not have a filament to "burn out," so sudden failures are much less common than with other light sources.
Heat, power that is not "clean," and moisture are factors that contribute to an LED's demise. How a particular LED deals with these factors determines how long the LED will last.
The IES has another guide, LUMENS-80-08 Measuring Lumen Maintenance of LED Light Sources, that establishes uniform test methods to help determine how long it takes before an LED light source dims to an unacceptable level. LUMENS-80 is for the LED source or module/array itself.
The life of an LED can be measured by the number of hours it takes for the lumen output to fall below a certain threshold; this is known as "lumen maintenance." It happens when the lumen output of the LED light source has depreciated to a percentage of its initial lumens. The rated lumen maintenance life as specified in the LUMENS-80-08 guide refers to two industry recognized periods: the first is the time to 70% lumen maintenance (L70) and the other is 50% lumen maintenance (L50). The lighting industry recognizes L70 as the basis for the useful life of an LED light source for general lighting. The L50 metric is for LEDs used for decorative lighting. These L70 and L50 recommendations come from the Alliance for Solid State Illumination Systems and Technologies (ASSIST), a group led by the Lighting Research Center (LRC).
For example, an LED luminaire with IES LUMENS-80-08 testing and a specified 30,000-h life at 70% lumen maintenance claims the tested LED samples reached 30,000 h before the lumen output fell below 70% of the initial lumen output of the LED light source.
The LUMENS-80-08 guide specifies the test conditions and parameters for measuring the lumen maintenance of LEDs. A test report is required listing key data including how the LED light source was tested.
A typical incandescent lamp has a life of about 1,000 h; CFLs last about 8,000 to 10,000 h; the best linear fluorescent lamps last about 30,000 h. Typical pulse start metal halide lamps have an average lamp life of 7,500 to 20,000 h with lumen maintenance of 50%. Typical LED light sources have an L70 life of 30,000 to 50,000+ h. (See the Dept. of Energy's "Lifetime of White LEDs" for more details.)
It is important to note that LUMENS-80-08 does not provide a method for estimating the life of an LED light source. IES technical memorandum, TM-21-11 Projecting Long Term Lumen Maintenance of LED Light Sources, "recommends a method for projecting the lumen maintenance of LED light sources from the data obtained by the procedures found in IES document LUMENS-80-08." This memorandum is used to estimate LED lumen maintenance and service life beyond 6,000 h (the time period required for testing). IES LUMENS-80 specifies testing at three ambient temperatures. TM-21 can be applied for estimating lumen maintenance beyond the test data for all three temperatures (Figure 1).
Verification and testing
Engineers should verify that a manufacturer's LED light source has been tested according to IES guidelines LUMENS-79-08 and LUMENS-80-08. Estimates of lumen maintenance using IES TM-21 should be provided by the manufacturer. Ideally, the tests should be performed by independent and reputable third-party laboratories.
Engineers should require LED manufacturers to provide IES LUMENS-79-08 and LUMENS-80-08 data and test reports for evaluation. The data should match the published specifications for the LED light source. Engineers also should evaluate the warranty period for LEDs as well as the reputation and history of the manufacturer.
Keep in mind that for a new product, LUMENS-80 testing may be in process; and the report may not be available as it takes more than 8 months to complete the 6,000 h of minimum testing.
Chow is the founder and owner of Metro CD Engineering. He received a BSEE from Ohio Northern University. Chow is a member of the Consulting-Specifying Engineer editorial advisory board.
Other useful Illuminating Engineering Society publications relating to LEDs include:
- DG-10-12 Design Guide for Choosing Light Sources for General Lighting
- G-2-10 Guideline for the Application of General Illumination ("White") Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Technologies
- TM-16-05 Technical Memorandum on Light Emitting Diode (LED) Sources and Systems
- LUMENS-82-12 Characterization of LED Light Engines and LED Lamps for Electrical and Photometric Properties as a Function of Temperature
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Marian Price is just one of several Irish people still interned in British Occupied Ireland for almost 18 months, during which time neither Marian or her lawyers have been allowed to see any of Britain's 'alleged' evidence against her.
• She has been kept in solitary confinement in a 'male' high security prison
• She is effectively interned without a trial, sentence, or release date.
• She has not been given any timescale for any investigation.
• She has not been allowed to see the evidence that the state claims to have
• Her release has been ordered on two occasions by judges. However, on both occasions the British Vice royal has overruled those decisions.
• The Vice royal claims they 'revoked Marian's license, 'despite Marian never being released on license. She was given a Royal Pardon.
• Marian's Royal Pardon has 'gone missing' from the home office (the only time in history). The British Vice royal has taken the view that unless a paper copy can be located – it must be assumed that she does not have one. It is generally agreed that MI5 shredded her majesty's pardon.
• Despite no 'license' existing for her release from prison in 1980, it is the non-existent licence that is being used to keep her in prison.
• She can only be released by Theresa Villiers the current Vice royal responsible for Marian's internment.
The second last time Marian appeared in court, the charges against her were thrown out of court for lack of evidence by a Judge. Now the very same charges have been re-instated against Marian again in front of the very same Judge!
In secret courts, being introduced secretly, by the back door, through legislation in the House of Lords, MI5 the British secret service, push for secret trials to take place, with secret evidence by secret witnesses, that not even the defendant's lawyers are allowed to know or see. The length of sentence is secret with it all kept secret, under penalty of a long jail sentence, of their Official Secret's Act.
Despite protests of defence lawyers, the secret courts will operate, with virtually no rules of evidence, no discovery rules, no rules of decision and no rules regarding precedent. Not only will traditional law be in short supply, so too, will any sense, as to what interpretive practices would be followed by the 'judges' or what precedent values will exist.
In the constant existential crises, of the nonsensical British scum state, established on the basis of a British mentored sectarian headcount, with rules and ongoing lawlessness of farcical law, its obvious injustice, commands no respect from informed Irish citizens, with the exception of Her majesty's cultivated bigoted, sectarian, neo-colonial, commoners.
With indefinite internment without a fair trial, without formal charges, where counsel is uniformed, where an individual cannot have their day in open court, events such as the miscarriages of justice like the Guildford 4 and the Birmingham 6 will become the secret norm. Internees without trial are being secretly judged, by observers with a vested financial and political interest to infer guilt by often bigoted, prejudiced, sectarian, racist, blackmailed, intimidated bureaucrats of colonial perceptions.
The dehumanization of internees such as Marian Price, through the infliction of pain and torture, not only damages her body and mind, it is as Elaine Scarry wrote, world-destroying, "It is the intense pain that destroys a person's self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe. Intense pain is also language destroying; as the content of one's world disintegrates, so the content of one's language disintegrates; as the self disintegrates, so that which would express and project the self is robbed of its source and its subject. Thus, physical erasure also eliminates the intelligible voice, reducing human speech to the primordial expression of pain, a state anterior to language."
In addition to these erasures of her body, mind and self, British torture achieves a third form of physical erasure by the very fact
of the political prisoners' torture, requiring concealment. The retreat of torture from respectability by European standards, means that the British must perform their brutality in hiding, primarily with censorship. However they also conceal their involvement in rendition, as they hide their activity in subcontracted assassinations, with more curtains over their already, shrouded victim's bodies such as several human rights lawyers liquidated in British Occupied Ireland
While in some instances, their prolonged stress positions along with other techniques, constituting cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment, may not always rise to the level of torture, they nevertheless were found guilty of such, by the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg regarding their activity in Ireland. The physical erasure of British torture is self-evident in their colonial history worldwide, right up to the present day and therefore needs only brief comment.
In secret British courts, with identity blacked out on their transcripts, judges will not countenance torture complaints, deeming this complaint conduct unacceptable and defendants will receive a final warning, oblivious to international law. In such courts they do not tolerate words, such as international law. The British are not concerned about international law and insist on it, by having internees like Marian Price, removed from the hearings, so that their secret services and military can consider classified evidence against her in secret.
If we accept the integrity of human rights law and its independence from any state sovereign, then it follows that there can never be
lawlessness such as there is in British Occupied Ireland, only gross violations of human rights law. Britain's current habeas-corpus-stripping provisions, are a core breach of human rights law. The many liberty concerns with regard to the Geneva Conventions and current British attempts at unilateral re-interpretation of sections of international law, have no constitutional basis whatsoever.
British Occupied Ireland with the treatment of political internees such as Marian Price, Martin Corey and many others, has become a human-rights-free zone.The quarantine of many Irish political prisoners is a familiar concealment. When placed in a human rights context. British Occupied Ireland is often described in terms of the British government's denial of rights to political prisoners but equally important the denial of their Irish humanity.
British Occupied Ireland has been a laboratory, of their systematic dehumanization, while they use their corporate right-wing media, such as the BBC world service, to refer to prisoners of conscience, as terrorists, to ostracize them from what it means to be human and allow the British continue the physical and mental maltreatment of Irish political prisoners, abhorrent to humanbeings.Thus they accomplish through cultural erasure, through the creation of the terrorist narrative; legal erasure and physical erasure through torture.
While the dimensions of dehumanization are distinct, they are interrelated. All are connected by law and specifically by humanrights.The British have created the preconditions for state power activity, so brutal, as to deprive Irish political prisoners of the ability to be human or have any human rights. Irish political internees stand exposed to the violence of the British state, unmediated, unprotected by any human rights, reducing political internees to a state of bare life without humanity. The evolving normalization, is the Irish have no right, to have rights, a vacuum enabling extreme British state violence, placing the internment of internees such as Marian Price, at the center of a struggle not just for rights, but for humanity that includes you and me.
Through resistance, political space will open up but the mere resistance, the assertion of self against state violence, is in itself life-affirming. Resistance is a way of staying human. This, then, is the work that human rights do, when pushed to the brink of annihilation, they provide us with a rudimentary and perhaps inadequate tool to maintain our humanity. Thus by paying particular attention to the value of human rights and arguing the importance of rights, it becomes a mode of peaceful resistance, to British state violence. British internment is a military act of war on a defenceless civilian population, even their own beloved wartime Churchill called it and odious act of war in wartime.
It has been used in every decade in Ireland in the last century with political concentration camps with impunity, because the British ruling class regard and portray the Irish as subhuman. Indeed Irish political prisoners of conscience, currently live in subhuman conditions in British Occupied Ireland. Irish political prisoners pushed to the the edge of annihilation of their identity, have a long track record of participating in direct forms of resistance in many forms, including dirt strikes and hunger strikes, as a form of prisoner resistance, along with lawyer rights-based litigation and the hunger strikes, sharing an understanding of the relationship between rights, violence, and humanity.
While sometimes the resistance of lawyers and of prisoners may not be enough to win the prisoners' freedom as in the instance of dozens of Irish political prisoners who have died on hunger strike, it is still essential when British state violence is so extreme, as to attempt to extinguish our humanity and carry out this act of war on a defenceless civilian population that we explore every peaceful mode of resistance, besides fighting fire with fire. We have a moral obligation to consider all other alternatives first, that we fight fire with water and deny the British, with their barbaric acts of war on ordinary people, any basis for their inhumanity with their terrorist narrative.
Ordinary people too, who are genuinely interested in real peace in Ireland, have a responsibility to work for justice in Ireland, which is the only basis for a real lasting peace. Careerist politicians making millions off the backs of the long suffering Irish people make superficial careerist calls for peace, knowing full well is is hypocritical nonsense in an island of a divided Ireland, in more senses than one, planted firmly in social and political injustice of the extreme.
There is rally today, Saturday the 3rd of November in Dublin, starting at the Garden of Remembrance at 2.00 p.m, which goes to the historic GPO. That is a good start for anyone genuinely interested interested in Peace in Ireland and remove the basis of political violence. It would do well for those politicians engaged in state violence and acts of war against the Irish people of no property, to open their minds to this suggestion, rather than mouth vacuous, hypocritical condemnations for strictly political profit.
Related Link: http://irishblog-brianclarkenuj.blogspot.com/


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PRESS RELEASE: The American Massage Therapy Association® (AMTA®) fourth annual summary research on the state of the massage therapy profession indicates both the impact of the poor economy on massage in the past two years and how massage therapists have adjusted their practices. A detailed report focused on the meaning of the research for massage therapy schools was released and discussed today at the AMTA 2011 Massage Schools Summit in San Francisco.
Based on three surveys conducted for AMTA in recent months, and data from government agencies, the research shows the economy is the prime mover of massage therapy. Indications are that the public embraces the benefits of massage and will increase their usage as the economy recovers.
The percentage of adult American consumers who received a massage between July 2009 and July 2010 went down by four percentage points, from 22 percent to 18 percent, compared to the previous year. Consumers continue to strongly believe in the efficacy of massage with over 80 percent of them seeing massage as effective in reducing pain and as beneficial to their health and wellness. Twenty-six percent of American adults expected to get a massage in the next twelve months.
"We are delighted to provide our members, the profession and the public with ongoing research about the state of massage therapy in the U.S.," says AMTA President Kathleen Miller-Read. "We now have several years of information that help us all see what is happening in consumer use of massage, how massage therapists practice and how massage schools are functioning. This information is invaluable to all of us, to help us know how to maintain our practices and how our massage schools can change to reflect the evolving needs of our profession."
During 2010, massage therapists worked an average of 19.4 massage hours per week, down slightly from 20.4 hours per week in 2009. Including tips, the average therapist earned $41 per hour in 2010 vs. $44.90 in 2009.
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Updating tint2 port/package
I use tint2 as a panel with OpenBox for my desktop and noticed that it was a Google Summer of Code project from 2009. The upstream author added additional features (Launcher) which has been available for several years.
Tint2 Configuration
My sense is the svn code is fairly stable as it has been incorporated into Debian testing (Wheezy) with only one warning patch about the configuration wizard not being able to save. ArchBang and CrunchBang are also using the svn release.
I emailed the OBSD port maintainer to see if there was any intent to update. The maintainer is active and busy (In a Ph.D program and maintains multiple ports) and I am going to give him a couple of weeks before re-emailing with an updated port.
With that background my question;
If I were to try to upgrade the port myself, after studying the porter's handbook, it looks easiest to pull the svn source and the patch from the Debian repositories. Otherwise subversion would become a build dependency. Is this acceptable or does the community prefer to get the original source?
The ports tree infrastructure does not support source extraction from repositories (svn, git, cvs, ...). Source must be extracted from a downloaded distribution file archive. If the upstream project does not package releases in this fashion, the $MAINTAINER must do so.
In this case, tint2-0.11 is the most recent tarball packaged by the project. If you were the maintainer, your choice would be to either succeed with a request to the the upstream project to host another release tarball for download, or, package and host it yourself. However, the second option would be creating your own release or a snapshot of current development. As it would be unofficial, it may be rejected for ports tree commit unless there was a clear and compelling need (such as the upstream project being disbanded).
As you are not the maintainer, but only an interested party, you could certainly contact the developers and ask them to consider hosting an updated tarball. It's their choice whether to issue a new release or not. If they do this, you can update the port and submit it to the maintainer for review. With no response after a week or two, you could submit it to ports@ for consideration.
The other choice -- hosting your own tarball within your $DISTFILE directory without an upstream release -- would only be practical for a personal port. Copy /usr/ports/x11/tint2 to /usr/ports/mystuff/x11/tint2 and update to your heart's content.
I did not realize that OpenPorts.se allows searching by Master site. I was able to find several ports that pull the source from Debian servers.
pdmenu master site/git
I will email the upstream project to see if they can put together a release - the svn code is getting wide use.
This also looks like it could become a larger issue. I have Via all-in-one that uses xf86-video-openchrome and the release server has been down for months - source is only available by git.
For handling git you can follow the advice given in http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=135835567914881&w=2
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VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience.
A few hours earlier, he had held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with Germany's leader.
About 200,000 people, from Europe, Asia and the pope's native South America filled St. Peter's Square and nearby streets to join Francis in hours of prayer, music and speeches aimed at encouraging Catholics to strengthen their faith and give morality a greater role in everyday life.
"If investments, the banks plunge, this is a tragedy, if families are hurting, if they have nothing to eat, well, this is nothing, this is our crisis today," Francis told the crowd, insisting the true crisis is one of moral values.
Francis said his church "opposes this mentality" and pledged it will be dedicated to "the poor people."
Earlier in the day, the pope met privately with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who made a brief visit to Rome, mindful of the importance of Christian voters back home ahead of an election she faces in September. She joined the pope in expressing concern about the many victims of Europe's economic crisis.
Francis, who is Argentine, has picked up on campaigns by the two previous popes, the Polish John Paul II and German Benedict XVI, to reinvigorate what the Catholic Church sees as flagging religious enthusiasm on a continent with Christian roots, including a dwindling number of churchgoers in much of Western Europe, and a decline in morality.
"I see continuity in the missionary aspect, in becoming aware of the importance of Christianity for our Christian roots," said Merkel, adding that the "simple and touching words" of Francis, who was elected pontiff two months ago, are already reaching people.
The vast cobblestone square outside St. Peter's Basilica is traditionally the boundary for pontiffs greeting the faithful at outdoor Vatican gatherings. But Francis kept going in his pope-mobile past the edge of the square as he waved cheerfully and sometimes blew kisses to the enthusiastic crowd, which the Vatican said numbered 200,000.
He was driven halfway down the Rome boulevard that leads from the square to the Tiber River before turning back.
Merkel's Christian Democrat party depends heavily on support from Protestant and Catholic voters in Germany, and the 45-minute chat and photo opportunity in the Apostolic Palace could be a welcome campaign boost for a leader largely identified by Europe's economically suffering citizens as a champion of debt reduction, including painful austerity across much of the continent.
The Vatican is eager for allies in its campaign to anchor European societies more solidly in their heritage of Christian roots. The church also seeks support on behalf of Christians who face persecution in the world.
During the rally, Francis embraced one of the speakers, Paul Bhatti, whose brother Shahbaz, a Pakistani government minister, was assassinated in 2011 after urging reform of a blasphemy law in Pakistan that had targeted Christians.
But the suffering of Europeans caught in the continent's grip of joblessness and other economic woes also dominated the pope's concerns. On Thursday, Francis blasted what he called a "cult of money" in a global financial system that ends up tyrannizing, not helping, the world's poor.
"It's a deep crisis," Francis said Saturday. "We just cannot worry about ourselves . . . close ourselves in a sense of helplessness." The pontiff urged people to help the needy, especially on the margins of societies.
Merkel, asked by reporters about the pope's scathing criticism of the global financial system, said they had spoken about regulation of financial markets.
"The regulation of the financial markets is our central problem, our central task," Merkel said. "We are moving ahead, but we are not yet where we want to be, where we could say that a derailment of the guard rails of social market won't happen again.
"It ought to be like this: the economy is there to serve the people. In the last few years, this hasn't been the case at all everywhere."
Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and especially Greece have seen governments concentrate on debt reduction while slashing state spending. With growth stymied, unemployment, especially among young people, has soared. Businesses, many of them family-run in southern Europe, have failed as bank lending dried up.
The chancellor said the pope had stressed that the world needs a strong and just Europe.
Merkel is campaigning for re-election in September's general election. Half of Germany's population is Catholic. In Bavaria there is a strong conservative and Catholic tradition.
According to a Vatican statement, Francis and Merkel also discussed safeguarding human rights, the persecutions faced by Christians and religious freedom.


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The Loft is Open
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, freebies, iheartslFeed, new releases on Friday, May 31, 2013
I decided to declare the loft open to the public. Feel free to come visit and photograph. Find it here. This is a continuation of the previous post, so if you missed that -- by all means scroll back :D.
Same new release from Ducknipple; just a couple of clicks of the hud and you get a whole new look.
The wall and floor art in the lead photo (and more) is part of a new group gift from [we're CLOSED], a really fun shop.
-JoHaDeZ- (Sim 7) Sideboard "forgotten tres" is available at the Home and Garden Expo. It includes many choices of decor panels and lots of poses and animations (couple's included).
The rug is from La Galleria (Sim 3)
(click for larger photo)
The new modular kitchen from Trompe Loeil (FaMESHed) works nicely in the kitchen.
The paris loft is available at COLLABOR88 but hurry.
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Poses by: STATUS
Black and White and Red All Over
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, hair, iheartslFeed, new releases
Earlier in the month I showed the the Paris Loft (rainy day version) from Barnesworth Anubis for COLLABOR88. As we near the end of May, I have completed my decorating. A tour is in order. There was no deadline; I took my time and enjoyed the journey. Almost everything in the loft is new, many items from the Home and Garden Expo. Two items just out for The Challenge (this month's theme is industrial - warehouse) completed the look.
The architect's drafting table and accessories is from Follow Us. 26 prims in all, it comes in four parts (helmet is separate if you are a gal) that you can adjust to your liking. With great details, it is indeed a winner.
I love the Pipe Lamp from Kuro, one of my new favorite stores. It comes in either black or gray and goes exceptionally well in the room, b e c a u s e - - - -
there are coordinating items from the same store close by *wink*. If you missed the earlier post, the chair and lamps are also from Kuro and the bookcase is from Second Spaces (Home and Garden Expo). The art is from a hunt awhile back. The very cool dresser will be out at the Arcade tomorrow from Trompe Loeil. All together it makes an arty work area which I love.
My outfit of the morn is made up of two new releases from Ducknipple, the Campi top and Imker skirt. These play quite well together with just a tiny bit of a bow string falling into the drape of the skirt. I can live with that. Color and pattern hud of course. While I normally where a S size, that was a bit too small for me on the top. I was very pleased to note that the deformer size fit better than the M; so progress is being made on that front it seems.
Last up is Silvia, a very pretty hair from MINA for Numerology, an event -- not a hunt as I suspected. It starts the 1st. This is a very cute and casual style that moves well with the body. I love the little clip which is texture change and can be invisible. There are two styles in one pack (I can't tell the difference but I am sure Mina can). Both natural or two tone colors are available.
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Poses by: BehaviorBody aDORKable
A Change of Seasons
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, freebies, hair, hunts, iheartslFeed, new releases, poses on Thursday, May 30, 2013
May has been a super busy month for me -- maybe for you too. June is filled with promise with lots of great new venues changing the guard. Of particular note it The Challenge for designers, with this month's theme being INDUSTRIAL. Some outstanding items are coming in and I am very much looking forward to showing them to you. Also soon to come is a new round of The Arcade. I am not a gatcha gal, but even I will be journeying over this time when the crowds cool down. There are some outstanding things including some machines that I would be happy to have any of the items -- that works for me. At the top of my personal list (some things I have you see *wink*) is variety of games form Second Spaces. I would CHOOSE the backgammon, but all look good.
There are some good looking hunts on the horizon including
My outfit contains newness as well as some freeness. Both good. My new hairdo which I really like is an upcoming release from EMO-tions (Saturday). Look for Ellen.
My outfit is the Midnight prize (actually two boards) from Sakide. I tapped them as I was picking up those great bikinis yesterday. Notable is that the top comes in many sections even though mesh. So the buttons, tie, and cuffs are all "add" items. It works really well -- for me anyway. I think fitting might be an issue with the top, but certainly worth a try. It is very nicely made. The skirt runs large.
Speaking of The Arcade, this pose and flowers (different colors for different poses) will be the offering from aDORKable.
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Pose by: aDORKable at the Arcade in June
Big Little and Short
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts, iheartslFeed on Wednesday, May 29, 2013
First up a set from SS (# 13).
It is easy to see this is the "little" end of the spectrum. This mesh bikini set comes in standard sizing with three colors to choose from. Find it at Sakide and be sure and check the midnight board and lucky letters while you are there.
Not exactly my style but very nicely made, this Naughty pink top hales from Razor (#10). The skirt complete with various sizes comes with a texture change hud that is very easy to use. Find it at PurpleMoon Creations.
My ladybug adornment is from long, long ago :D
And with that, I give you a fashion and hunt post. Yeah!
Poses by: Vista Animations and Diesel Works
Preety Preety
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts, iheartslFeed, new releases
Coming up -- a post on the Big and Little Hunt which ends tomorrow so speediness is a necessity. And indeed this lovely long gown which features a subtle flowered jacquard pattern on the lower skirt is an item from that hunt. Find it at Sassy.
I was extremely happy to have something with which to pair this necklace and earring set from lassitude & ennui for TLC. There are many colors, gold or silver metals and demos available.
If you like feminine and posh, these items are for you.
Poses by: Diesel Works
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, iheartslFeed, new releases on Tuesday, May 28, 2013
New from Eclectica, the 'Flora' Sunhat offers almost infinite choices. First you have a choice of hair or no hair, then hat colors, then flower and trim colors -- well you get the idea. I have no idea what the actual permutation number is, but it is a big one. I went for pink tones to go along with my new landscape. From there I added a dress by Ducknipple which of course had a pink choice in the hud (love those huds).
Now while we are here at this shot, let me start my story. A few days ago I showed you some flora from Forest Feast (Sim 4), a veteran in the flowers department. They are lovely. Later when I journeyed over to the blogger platform from Home and Garden Expo to see what newness may have arrived, I found myself with another box of flowers. Bleary? A bit. Long hours this last week for sure and it is hard to remember what you picked up and what you did not, even when you aren't tired.
Anyway --- I opened the box and pulled out some things to find newness. Now I am guessing it wasn't really newness, just me missing something the first time around. What I found was a really nice set of roses that have an extensive hud with many choices. Best of all, you actually get three different kinds of Wild Roses. You can choose pale pink with greenery, just greenery or rosehip (what you see here). You can also turn bright on and off (handy if you live in a "no bright allowed" sim), choose glow or not and how much, decide on transparency etc. The bushes are also mod so you can make them larger or smaller as needed. A great value on many fronts.
There are a variety of basic hair colors in a short 1920ish style.
You could of course wear the chapeau with your favorite hat hair, but I am a pragmatic gal (a tired one at that) and I liked this nostalgic look.
The tall rose bush in the background is also from Forest Feast. It goes really well up against the mansion I showed you yesterday from La Galleria (see yesterday's post for more info).
Home and Garden Expo.
I saw these at the Expo, thought they looked well-made and classic, but I didn't try to use them.
They are SO EASY!!!! They fit together effortlessly with little thought or planning needed. They also resize to much larger without increasing the land impact. So I made a large entry patio for 7 land impact.
So take a second look at these. There is just ONE paver piece and it fits amazingly like a puzzle -- again without any complex thinking. I really can't wrap my head around how he did this, but it works.
Poses by: aDORKable
Let's Talk
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment, iheartslFeed on Monday, May 27, 2013
So I looked for an "outtake" to go atop this "Strawberry's being nosy again" post *wink*, but alas there were none. It may seem like I am avoiding fashion of late but honestly I am not getting much fashion arriving in my inbox. So, I blog what comes my way.
There is that mesh thing and not everything fits or looks good. It would be a disservice to feature non-fitting attire. We saw too much of that when mesh was new.
On the upside there are some great hunts starting in a few days, plus SL10B (my plot is already filled and waiting with goodies to pick up).
This is for Berry's communication meme.
- Who did you speak to last inworld today? LaPicean, somewhere between mentor and boss.
- Who has taught you most about SL? No one person really. I read a lot and get much of my info from tutorials and forum post and the like.
- Who do you turn to for help? The SL Forums which are filled with some very wonderful and helpful folks.
- Who is the most entertaining person on your friend list? Chandra as she often makes me laugh.
- Do you speak to your SL friends outside of SL? I had RL friends that joined SL before I. I still talk to one of them daily.
- Are you part of a community or family inworld? No, I'm not. Loner. Worker. Mad creator. No time for family. What can I say?
- Are you usually around a lot of people or do you spend most of your time alone inworld? Alone, at MOSP these days. Often on my building pad gazing at the somewhat clear skies.
Through My Window
One of the most striking and prominent builds came late to the Home and Garden Expo Party. We'll skip the dra-ma report and simply say "Welcome"! That means if you zipped over on opening day, you really want to return :D.
La Galleria (Sim 3) has a striking home to show you, the San Marino House .
It is opulent and grande (yes, with an "E") with some outstanding details. There are four versions in the pack (two sizes and two styles of balconies). There is an option to rez a front patio (partially seen here) at the entrance or a simple stone pad. Click the doorframe for a choice of options. The rear patio is spacious and perfect for very classy entertaining. A huge box of accessories is included; a backyard pool with patio is in the list.
As I typed that last sentence I remember that I actually had tea (the English version) in a home very much like this in Barbados, West Indies where I lived for awhile. I didn't hang out with too many of these folks, but now and then serendipity took me into Upper Crustville, and trust me -- it is there *wink*.
Indeed this mansion would feel right at home there with the glassed doors and open plan.
There are furniture sets to accompany the build or to go into your existing home.
I took many more photos but you really need to see it for yourself.
The prim count as you would expect is in the high range spanning the 330 - 397 range without additions.
I was so impressed with this house that I took up some vehicles at MOSP in order to have prims to rez. Look for it in the Cherry Blossom Romance section.
Skin: Izzie's - Asia Skin tanned
Outfit by Ducknipple
Hair by Amacci
Pose by: the furniture
I have to admit that while I am fairly literate I didn't know the word "dystopic" until it appeared on Cajsa's sim list long ago. Actually, while I remember the term as dystopic, it may have said dystopia(n) as that appears to be the correct term -- so sayeth Google and Wikipedia and they of course are the authorities.
I always assumed dystopian was a post apocalypse cousin. It seems that while it can be, it ain't necessarily so. That If A and B then (maybe) C logic thing.
Anyway, this leads me to my post of the afternoon (where did the day go?).
22769 ~ [bauwerk] (Sim 7) released the Voronoi House at the Home and Garden Expo. Now I admit that I opened and rezzed the house a few days ago. I really liked it but I was also puzzled. With big points for departure from the norm and low prim count (25 with decks), I was having trouble putting it into a category. Now of course there is no reason TO DO that, but just me. Then I saw a post on this house from another blogger. It was dark and sepia toned and for whatever reason it was a light bulb moment.
For ME, the Voronoi house is a perfect sci-fi, dystopian, post apocalypse abode. I love the industrial strength leaded glass walls. The light patterns are fantastic.
So, it is being added to the barren landscape of the SAND area at MOSP. I definitely feel like I could be in an outpost in Tatooine :D. I will be modding this design some and happily that is fairly easy to do. It is a LONG build in its default size and would need a fairly large piece of land. But I found it was very easy to size down as a whole or take off the back deck etc. So many options are available to you. I will mostly be roughing the wood up a bit so that it looks less sleek and spiffy and more desert dweller.
Let you imagination be your guide.
My outfit isn't new at all and isn't even an outfit but bits and pieces of older items that I had great fun styling into my role play attire.
Hair from Discord, Goggles from K_gs, clothing from EMO-tions and ExXeSs, Boots from CARGO on the Marketplace.
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Poses by: aDORKable
Bits and Pieces
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, iheartslFeed, new releases on Sunday, May 26, 2013
A quick late night post with a couple more Home and Garden Expo items featured.
It was a fun afternoon all around catching up with friends and taking some snapshots. This is a staged photo -- I shall not lie. It was taken in hopes of getting the Machinima Open Studio Project into the destination guide. I will keep my fingers crossed. You just never know.
Part of the reason for showing you that shot was so that you could see the environment where the new Second Spaces (Sim2) Industrial Baker's Rack will be living. I just loved it, but not having a bakery I was scratching my head with where to put it. Well all those hungry crew members go through both food AND plates. So this works and adds extra ambiance to the scene. At only five land impact, the nicely designed mesh is a deal!
I also wanted to show you this super fun Toon Town set from RE Blueprint Designs (Sim 8). Now I don't really expect a lot of folks in my audience to be in need of this set, but it definitely brings a smile and it is one of the most original builds I have seen in awhile. Clapping for the creativity.
That's my late night post. More tomorrow.
On the Water
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, freebies, hunts, iheartslFeed, new releases
The hunt at the Home and Garden Expo is going well -- judging from my transaction history anyway :D. There are some great items to be found for sure.
The PRIME prize is a couples raft that includes some nice animations with adjustments and swapping. Some are definitely romantic and others not so much. Some you can use on your own and that works well too. Yeah!
Hunt photos, hints and SLURLs are here. This is supposed to be a blind hunt so I am not allowed to give you any coordinates, but any intrepid hunters will find things easily. My prize which you may have seen featured (yeah) is a wine glass, book stack and show tickets decor piece.
There is a matching 2 LI inter-tube with animations as a PRIME RLF item.
Feel free to try them out in a lag free environment HERE.
I am wearing a new pair of mesh jeans from SLX. It is part of a complete outfit. What is the most notable perk for me is that they work with the new Ducknipple The Tank which I have been living in a lot. Finding tops and bottoms in mesh that work well together is sometimes tricky. So in case you zipped out and got The Tank, check out the new Dollie jeans.
Di is wearing two new group gifts from COCO, a tank (there is a black version also) and some very nice boots. So check that group gift wall if you haven't lately.
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Poses by: the raft and tube
Basement Band
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, hair, iheartslFeed, new releases, places on Saturday, May 25, 2013
A new release from Vanity Hair is both striking, feminine and hard edged. I'm not sure how it manages all that in one "do", but it does. Look for Dry Martini.
The Home and Garden Expo posts aren't over of course. This feature is brought to you by IONIC and Second Spaces.
If you like music and pastel colors, the piano and drum set (sold separately) from IONIC will make you smile. The drum set is missing sticks, but I plan to make some soon and they will be out at MOSP for free near the percussion instruments, so no worries. The drummer animation is quite realistic.
Also from IONIC (Sim 3) the Teen Riot Set includes lots of decor items like shirts on hangers, an amplifier and skateboard.
Sunday note: IONIC is no longer at the Expo.
The small dresser to the right is from Second Spaces (Sim 2). There are many versions and colors of this item, all in well used form.
I spent a long time looking at the easy to peruse area that is Second Spaces @ HGE. There are so many great things and I will be showing you more as the week goes on. But I wanted to be sure and let you know about this really fine bookshelf. Packed full of details it weighs in at a measly 2 LI.
The messy bookshelf (that's its name) has rolled up plans, storage boxes and open files with magazines. It comes in basic light gray and is mod. I did a little experimenting and found that you can tint the shelves themselves any color you would like. Here they are a dark taupe. This would work well in so many places.
I think a copy is going in my slowly being decorated rainy day skybox from Barnesworth Anubis. I decided to live in there for awhile during the decor period. Well, honestly I spend most of my time on my building pad or taking photos, but I have HOME set there and it is nice to see the shadows coming through the rainy windows. Eventually I will be done and eventually a new design will present itself and I will move into that and let the MOSP visitors have access to the nicely styled abode.
That's the plan anyway.
And yes, I finally changed clothes a bit. Very old painter jeans but newish MOTO boots in crimson from CARGO on the Marketplace.
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Poses by: aDORKable and the props
HGE -- The Houses
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, iheartslFeed, new releases on Friday, May 24, 2013
One of the most interesting of the Expo is this beautifully detailed house from Pixel Mode (Sim2). I am not exactly sure "why" that is -- it seems to be the feeling I get when I am inside; an energy thing. It is architectonic in style with squares, rectangles and edges dominating the design.
It is a one story house, roomy but not big enough to get lost in; a good size for many people.
There are some darling path lights and a paving stone set, both RFL items.
Barnesworth Anubis (Sim 2) presents a California styled home with Spanish influences; the Santa Barbara Bungalow. It boasts both front and back patios as well as a tiled kitchen nook.
The back patio includes and outdoor fireplace for those nights with a chill in the air and shade offering louvered patio roof.
The RFL items are the greenery filled planters and the flagstone pavers.
This two-story, beamed ceiling cottage is named Gale and hales from Cheeky Pea on Sim 2. Numerous design details add to the charm; high ceilings offer coolness on warm summer nights.
RFL items include a cute little calendar shaped like a house and a bright sunny gold version of this cottage.
And from CIRCA (Sim 4) there is an ultramodern glass house with attached entry vestibule.
Winding Down
The Home and Garden Expo opens its doors to the public at noon.
With plenty to see and do -- and shopping of course -- I suggest starting at the entertainment sim and moving out from there. Flying will most likely be your best plan for general exploration. With all the pretty trees planted lag became more evident.
Each sim has a board with merchant names and teleporters. So if you are looking for your favorites, check those boards and get to where you need to go speedily.
My featured designer (see I snuck that in) is What Next (Sim 7) and this is one of their RFL sets. It comes in other colors and comes with optional food and daisy decor. This reading and having coffee animation is so very realistic. We have come a long way with the advent of mesh and with motion capture animations. Every little bit moves our worlds closer together.
Now I have a little favor to ask dear readers *wink*. I found this super cute kids desk with lots of great accessories. I really, really want those crayons (yes, for a film). But I am not a gatcha gal.
So in case you are interested and try for some goodies. I would be very happy to buy your extra crayon box. Find it all at the Robin (Sojourner) Wood plot. Don't forget to look for the hunt prize there!
Skin: Akeruka Manuela Tan MK4
Poses by: the furniture
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, iheartslFeed, new releases, sneak peak
Not just about houses and furniture, there are plenty of wonderful bits of plant life at the Home and Garden Expo (opens at noon - watch here for a post publishing on the dot :D). This colorful lilypad is from Organica (Sim 8) and is an amazing 1 land impact. This is one of the RFL items.
Forest Feast (Sim 4 right across from my bus stop *wink*) has some lovely items including some spring grasses and old roses. I put them together for a wild garden look. Very pretty. Many items come in either copy or transfer versions, so you can choose the type of pack you need.
And a thumbs up to the garden build from Heart Botanicals (Sim 5) who has a lovely and calm forest getaway at the Expo; a perfect place to take a rest.
A Peaceful Sunset
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Stephan Visconti (stephanvisconti) was nice enough to send me his octagonal fountain. It is original mesh, quite beautiful and adds a peacefulness to the new garden area at MOSP. The fountain comes with 21 animations including some for couples and is original mesh -- oh, I said that; well good to note; original. Find it at the Atelier Visconti area on Sim 4 at the Home and Garden Expo which opens at noon tomorrow. A post with SLURL is already in the queue and will publish at noon along with a few tips on navigating the multi-sim complex.
Landscaping by Two Moon Gardens with my low mesh hills for visual interest.
See it here at MOSP and the large version of this photo here.
Sneak Peak Home Expo - Outdoors
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I just love this little hen house at Kismet, Sim 1.
Also in Sim 1, a very happy Autumn garden with Fall peas, onions and pumpkin. So cute. Find it at Dysfunctional Designs.
It would be difficult to miss this huge build by Studio Skye at Sim 4. Lots of paths to explore. Photo ops abound.
This country lane is so very nice. Find it at Sim 2 along the outer edge. This is by Two Moon Gardens. There are many lovely garden areas in the Expo. In my personal tests, this was one of the most framerate friendly. The path meanders through varying flora and it feels very much like you are on a country farm road.
If you love plants, don't miss out on the garden tour. Just click any of the signs you see along your journey to get a list of all the lovely garden spaces at the event.


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In mid-August, I got an email from a person I did not know, John Mann, telling me he was getting married to his girlfriend Libby in Montauk on September 7 and wanted to hire a bus and a tour guide to drive about 30 people around the Hamptons for the day.
"I was recently in the Montauk Bookshop," he wrote "and the owner suggested that I should reach out to you as you are the 'be all and end all when it comes to Hamptons local knowledge.' Do you know of anyone or could you suggest anyone that might be able to help us?"
It's hard to pass up that kind of flattery.
Also, 10 years ago, I gave tours for members of the 92nd Street Y. They'd come out in a full-size, regular bus and I'd tour from Westhampton to Amagansett with a microphone in the front seat. I did that one day in the spring every year for three years. My tour was a listed thing to do in their catalogue.
The bus rented for this wedding was a fabulous all-white rock-star bus, fitted out in mahogany and leather with 32 captain's chairs, a cocktail table toward the front and a curving leather couch at the back.
In front of a panel, there was the driver and tour guide seat of less luxurious material and importance. I'd be on the microphone in the front. This was not like the 92nd Street Y bus where I stood at the open front of the bus with a microphone and faced the occupants. Also, when I came into the beautiful back to introduce myself, I saw this was a whole different crowd on this bus. For the 92nd Street Y it was mostly retired people who didn't know one another. This crowd was family and friends, old and young, very happy and chattering away.
I tipped my hat, introduced myself, welcomed them, and went out the passenger door and came back in by climbing up the three steps into the front across from the driver, a black man with what I thought was a Jamaican accent. I introduced myself. His name was Rene Leonard. I was mistaken about his accent as it later turned out.
The plan was to give a morning tour in Napeague and Amagansett, then go to Sag Harbor, break for an hour and a half so they could walk around town and shop and eat, then at 1 p.m. head over to East Hampton, let them do a little shopping there, then head back to Sole East, where they were staying.
Heading west out of Montauk, I had the bus turn off to the right at Napeague Meadow Road, cross the tracks and come to a halt a few hundred yards beyond them where you could see the Napeague Art Barge, the tall metal tower and the abandoned concrete blockhouse next to it on pilings in the marshland there. I clicked on my microphone.
"The Art Barge is an art school," I told them, "created when a huge Manhattan houseboat was towed out and pushed up onto the beachfront property they owned in the spring of 1960. This was before zoning. You couldn't do this today. It was soon shored up and foundations put under it. There it is. It was and is the successful dream of its founder, Victor D'Amico."
I told them the tower was erected about 100 years ago by Marconi, who created the service so people on shore, in the blockhouse, could contact ships at sea by Morse code.
"There was no radio then," I said. "So this was this new way to keep track of ships. Think of the movie Titanic and the radio operator with the earphones."
I pointed out that if you looked halfway up the tower, you'd see an osprey nest. I told them the osprey was the largest bird on the East End, with a wingspan sometimes of six feet or more. Nobody was going to go up there and battle with those birds to take the nest down.
We stopped again at what is known as the The Fish Farm a half a mile further down. This consists of what seems from the road to be an assemblage of very large abandoned and decrepit buildings made of wood and corrugated metal sitting waterfront on the bay.
"You go in here and park, walk through packs of geese and chickens, past a cage in which Rhodesian Ridgebacks are being raised, past huge vats filled with flounder, past a fish packing house, a country store and a kitchen with an outdoor counter and chalkboard menu where you order food, and go to some picnic tables overlooking the water. The food is lobster, fries, fish, chicken and soft drinks. Bring your own beer. The store, by the way, is run by some French people who make delicious pastries they display in a showcase inside."
Surely this is the most remarkable establishment in the Hamptons. I told them the history of the place.
"As you see, we sit alongside a spur from the railroad that goes down to the this place. This was one of six fish factories built along the arc of this bay in the 1880s. Draggers would come in with tons of tiny bunker fish in their holds, they'd be taken ashore and boiled down into paste in huge vats, then shoveled into barrels and shipped by railroad to factories in Queens to be bottled into glue." I let that sink in. "The vats were open to the air. The whole place stank. I got here as a teenager in 1956. It smelled, but the last of the six factories closed around 1960. This is the only one that was not bulldozed down."
I took them along Bluff Road and down to Atlantic Avenue Beach, where I showed them the Coast Guard Station being restored and told them about how the Nazis landed there during World War II.
"There were four of them. They came across the Atlantic in a German submarine and got taken through the surf by sailors in a rubber boat on a foggy night in June of 1942. They had boxes of explosives with them, and their intention was to blow up department stores, bridges, aluminum plants and railroad junctions. Wouldn't you know it, they came up on the beach, in full Nazi uniforms, almost right in front of the Coast Guard Station. Also there was a naval radio station. The old wooden snack bar on the dunes in front of us I believe was a lookout for the Navy radio people. Not a good idea to come ashore here."
This is a fascinating story, and I was continuing on with it, telling about their ultimate arrests and encounter with the electric chair less than two months later, when out the front window of the bus, I saw a man I know at the wheel of a car, looking up at me. He was facing the bus where we had stopped, waiting for a moment when he could drive past us to head back up to Bluff Road.
Here I was, a tour guide with a microphone in the front end of a bus. He was Andy Sabin, a wealthy resident of these parts who a month ago I had joined on his 10-passenger private jet to North Dakota, where he has a factory and where one of my sons lives.
Up in the sky I recall him coming back after talking to the pilot to tell that we were now traveling 605 miles an hour; now he was looking up at me, the founder, President and Editor-in-Chief of Dan's Papers, and I was a tour guide on a bus. Hmmm! He now had a place to drive through. There he went.
From Atlantic Avenue Beach, I had the driver take us up Abrahams Path toward Springs Fireplace Road and the turn toward the Pollock-Krasner House. Along the way, I pointed out the modest houses where many local fishermen and baymen live.
"These are the descendants of the original settlers from England," I said. "They still fish. They call themselves Bonackers, speak English with a unique accent and are a pride of this community."
We passed the big kids park on Abrahams Path. Ball field, soccer field, tennis, skateboarding, track, indoor hockey arena. I mentioned that this fabulous park had been largely built with money provided by a low-profile but very generous billionaire who later, as it turned out, found his money was a fake. His money had been "invested" by Bernie Madoff. Now he was broke.
"Had Madoff not said all this money was there, this park may never have been built," I said. And it's true.
Then, as we turned off Abrahams Path onto Springs Fireplace Road, I said look out the window as we pass the spot where Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock had died driving his convertible car off the road."
"He was with two young women, 20 years his junior," I said. "His wife was in Paris."
It's fun giving a tour.
At the Pollock-Krasner house, we piled out of the bus to stand in the driveway and look out at the lawn in the back of the house where the great man lived and painted his famous drip paintings in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He also had a big, separate studio on the property. His wife, Lee Krasner, also painted, but in an upstairs bedroom.
The director of this restored home, now a museum, Helen Harrison, seeing this white rock-star bus out on the street and this crowd of 30 people standing in the driveway, came out to say hello.
She described how Springs was back then. Just 400 people lived in the community. There was no plumbing in the house. Pollock sometimes swapped paintings for groceries at a nearby country store.
"Any of you people live around here?" she asked. Almost none did. Mostly, they told her, they were from Ohio. She'd give a tour of the house now, she said, but there was a class in session in the house, so it was not possible. Maybe another time.
During the 15-minute drive to Sag Harbor, I described how that town had developed as a whaling town, in the first half of the 19th century. I described Long Wharf, the centerpiece of the town, which had 100 oceangoing whaling ships tied up there during that era and how the people today had kept the town as this classic little Victorian village to this day.
We parked in the big lot behind Main Street, and I got my first taste of what it was like to be a hired tour guide for a wedding party.
On board, the woman running the tour in the back told everyone to come out and enjoy a walk through town for an hour and a half—the driver and I had come out to stand by the door at this point—and soon everybody was gone. Then she turned to us and said she was willing to go into town and get something for the driver at a deli or something and did I know of one. I was free to go, she said, so long as I was back, but he had to stay by the bus. I thought I could go get him a sandwich, but she said no, she would, and so I told her to go to Conca D'Oro, which is a pizzeria where she could get sandwiches and other things, and she asked him what he wanted, he told her and then she was gone.
After he left, I talked to the driver, standing down there in the sun for a while. I had seen he had a hardcover book about science experiments through history and asked him about that, and he said he loved history. Turns out he was a part-time bus driver, but a full-time photo-journalist. He's from Zambia, spent years living in London and has been in war zones, most notably in Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa.
"Now I'm settled down a bit. Wife and kids, and we live in East Meadow. And I'm not risking my life so much." He didn't know much about the Hamptons, but was friends with Geoff Lynch. Did I know him? I sure did. He heads up the Hampton Jitney.
I wandered around Sag Harbor for that hour and a half after that, trying to look at it through tourists' eyes. I sat and had a Bloody Mary and salad on the front porch of the American Hotel. Jules Feiffer came over for a while. So did his girlfriend J.Z. Holden, who has just written a novel called Illusion of Memory. At one point, Jules went back out to his car and they gave me a copy, which she inscribed.
When everybody was back in the bus, happy, well-fed and carrying shopping bags, we pressed on. I had the bus driver take us up Garden Street, this narrow and charming little street lined with cottages from the whaling days, and I pointed out where Betty Friedan lived. We drove further on, and I pointed out the library, the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, then onto Union Street where we stopped in front of the Old Whalers' Church.
"This was the tallest building on Long Island for nearly 100 years," I said over the microphone. "It stood 180 feet high, and it's on this hilltop so it's even higher. The steeple was knocked off in the Hurricane of '38, however, so it's not so high now. They're raising money to put it back up."
We then drove further up Union Street, past the Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church, then went way up to the brow of Turkey Hill where we stopped briefly to look at a stone monument on an empty lot between some of the homes there.
"The monument marks the spot where a fort was built by American troops during the War of 1812," I said. "They had a big cannon up here. None of these houses were here. You could look down at Long Wharf back then and from the top of this hill, this cannon was fired to drive off British troops who had landed on Long Wharf intending to burn down Sag Harbor."
That'll hold them, I thought. I then had the driver take us down High Street to where Billy Joel lives on Bay Street facing the yachts, then took the bus up Main Street and out toward East Hampton.
On the way, I was told by the tour director that they didn't want to stop in East Hampton, just point things out. They'd had enough shopping.
I took them through the estate section of East Hampton, we admired the Japanese trees that line Lilly Pond Lane, then we went down to Main Beach, where I told them that since this beautiful pavilion had first been built 100 years ago, it had been torn down and rebuilt exactly as before at least twice in my lifetime.
"It would get too weather beaten," I said.
I also told them that for the rich the single most coveted item to have in the Hamptons was a cabana at this beach. There are only about 80 of them. "Also," I said, "there's a company that rates the best beaches in America. This year the winner is right here, Main Beach, East Hampton." People climbed down from the bus briefly to take pictures, both of the beach and the pavilion.
From here, we drove down Main Street East Hampton. I pointed out Town Pond and the mute swans, the library, Guild Hall, Clinton Academy, the three beautiful old wooden windmills, two at the west end of town and one on the town green to the east, then the mansion that was the summer white house for President John Tyler because he had married an East Hampton girl. And then we were off to Montauk.
At Solé East, Rene and I jumped down from the front and stood by the door as all the passengers disembarked. Many thanked us. Some of the men shook our hands. A big white tent was being erected in the backyard of Solé East near where we were parked. Rene and I went into the back of the bus to clean it a bit and see if they had left anything. There was a canvas bag with half a dozen bags of potato chips in it, some copies of Dan's Papers. I took out a bag of potato chips.
The woman running the event came back on the bus. "Now you've both been paid, is that correct?" she asked. I acknowledged that I had been—by the bride, earlier, in a cash handshake—and Rene said he had but there was some money due on the bus rental. She took out a checkbook. Then she saw my chips.
"I hope this is all right," I told her. She picked up the canvas bag and said, oh, take some more, take all you want, and I demurred and said oh, just this one is fine. Then she left.
Rene and I talked some more in the sunshine alongside the bus.
I said it was all new to me to be a wedding tour guide. I had never been in this position before. "I found myself thinking, as the people got off the bus, what if someone wanted to give me a tip? Would I take it?" We started laughing. "I guess I would," I continued. "I also felt she was half accusing me of stealing potato chips."
We said good-bye to one another, hugged, and I told him I'd like us to see one another again and he agreed. I told him I wanted to see his photo portfolio. We exchanged business cards.
And so we left. Back home, I told my wife not to disturb me, lay down on the couch in the living room and fell fast asleep for an hour. What a nice day.
After that, I emailed the groom. "I want you wish you the best wedding ever, all the family you want, and long life." I very much enjoyed giving this tour.
But, I think, not another very soon.


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April 12: Thought Leader Forum to Discuss Human Trafficking in SD
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Date: April 11, 2013
Times: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Location: CJ Callaway's Event Center (69th & Minnesota), Sioux Falls
Ticket Info: Tickets at the door are $25.
When Hannah Miller, class of 2012, decided to examine the growing issue of human trafficking in South Dakota, she decided to look at the issue first-hand. So, she dressed up as a biker girl and conducted undercover research during the state's famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
"South Dakota is among the top six worst states for human trafficking. From Sturgis, to the hunting season, to the Native American Reservations, people are preying on the vulnerable. Men and women are trafficked here to work in hotels, bars and other establishments," Miller said.
Miller will discuss her findings at the Augustana Thought Leader Forum, "The Dirty Little Secret: Human Trafficking in South Dakota" at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, at CJ Callaway's."
Tickets at the door are $25.
Miller took her own research and paired it with ongoing investigations conducted by Be Free Ministries, a nonprofit organization based in Sioux Falls that is committed to ending human slavery, trafficking and exploitation locally and round the globe.
She presented her findings to the campus community at the Augustana Symposium while Be Free officials presented the evidence to South Dakota lawmakers.
For Miller, the experience illustrated the sheer and lasting power of education.
"South Dakota now has a human trafficking law," Miller says, smiling, referring to a measure signed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard last March that allows the state to prosecute people for using force, fraud or coercion to make others engage in prostitution or involuntary servitude.
According to the new law, people convicted of human trafficking in South Dakota could face up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Those convicted of human trafficking involving kidnapping, prostitution, death or a victim younger than 16 could face up to 25 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
"Education is key. We need to get the word out about what's going on. That's the first step. Most people are blind to what's happening. Education is the foundation of democracy. These people are being trafficked from impoverished countries where there's no stable government, mass unemployment and other significant problems. Before human trafficking can diminish, we first need to look at a grass roots effort like the one I was involved with to help the vulnerable."
About Hannah Miller
A native of Mankato, Minn., and an elementary education major, Miller served on the Chapel staff and was its Ambassador/Service Coordinator during her sophomore year. She helped organize the "For All Who Are Thirsty" water project, an initiative to bring clean water to people in need, and helped raise $3,000 for the effort during the 2009-10 academic year. In 2010, she was named one of two Augustana Peace Prize Forum Scholars and spent two months at Norway's University of Oslo studying causes of armed conflicts, peace building, peacemaking, humanitarian interventions and aid, and nonviolent peace movements. For her final project as a Peace Prize Forum scholar, she examined the growing issue of human trafficking in South Dakota. She has dedicated countless hours to teaching and serving children with limited resources locally, in Tanzania and Slovakia. In 2012, she was named the recipient of the Covenant Award for Service, a distinguished honor recognizing students who have a commitment to service on campus and in the broader community; who inspire others to serve; who serve quietly without fanfare and with no desire for recognition; and whose future plans have been shaped by service.
Tickets at the door are $25. All forums in Sioux Falls are at CJ Callaway's Event Center (69th & Minnesota) beginning at 11:30 a.m.


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Baltimore is 20th worst bedbug city in U.S.
Study by Orkin says city saw 32% increase in bedbug population
Baltimore currently ranks as the 20th worst city for bedbugs in the country, according to a new study by pest control company Orkin.
The study looked at the top 50 urban areas that had bedbugs nationwide. According to researchers, there was a 32 percent increase in the bedbug population in Baltimore last year, knocking the city down two places from 2011.
The list shows that bedbugs can be easily transmitted in public spaces such as hospitals, movie theaters, gyms and hotels.
The best ways to protect yourself is to check mattress seams, sheets, and furniture; use preventative products like treated mattress pads, and be smart about travel.
Experts said to seal dirty clothes in air-tight bags when traveling, since bedbugs like those items. Also, check out the city or hotel you'll be traveling to at bedbugregistry.com.


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I am so happy to hear Hunting in Heels has once again been chosen as one of the top 20 posts of the week, for "It's a man's world", in the Links a la Mode section of Independant Fashion Bloggers ! Click below to discover lots of fantastic bloggers !
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This week, the Spice Girls got together to announce their support for the upcoming musical Viva Forever, which is inspired by their Girl Power movement. The fearless, limitless supergroup has come so far since they burst onto the scene 16 years ago. They've inspired millions of girls around the world to go after their dreams, and paved the way for bloggers like you and I to share our individual styles and passions with the world. My picks this week reflect how IFBers are spicing up their life this summer. From Beetlejuice and the streets of Tokyo to the bright colors and light fabrics of the season, the variety of style expression has never looked so good. Even Victoria Beckham would be proud!
- Bowtie Diary: Before and After
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- Moi Contre La Vie: Mission Put Together, Week 2
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- Sara Constance: Happy 6 Month Blogging Anniversary!
- Stephanie Surtida: Tokyo Street Fashion
- Studs & Sapphires: Photo Diary – Cold Shoulder
- Style Cue by Susie Q: High-Waist Tweed & Sequins
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